Learning infosec practices and expanding your knowledge past the classroom has always been difficult. In the year of old crotchety hooligans, they use to beg/borrow/steal hardware in order to learn. Kids these days have new hotness’s available to them: cloud services, VPN’s, and more. But what is lost is that tactile control and feedback of owning that platform for learning. In this talk, you’ll learn about the odyssey and exploration I took on developing a home laboratory on the cheap, leveraging modern tools as cost savers that will allow you to have the same learning experience our elders once had; minus the power bill, cooling requirements, and sketchy acquisition of hardware. Students, learn from this demonstration as to how you can grow your infosec ninja skills at home; experts, please provide improvement from your experiences!